Love/Hate Ducati ownership
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, 23rd January 2012 at 13:00 (2359 Views)
I've written about my love/hate relationship with the Ducati before, but it has reached epic proportions this time.
Bike has 33,567kms on the clock.
It is due a chain and sprockets, but thats not the kicker.
It has had its starter rebuilt (yet only 32k when it was done? shit!) but I have been told that the high compression makes these motors harder on the starter to turn over.
Now I love this bike to bits, even though I have tried selling it twice, I end up taking it off trade me and carrying on....
This time I am really pissed. Last 3 weeks:
After a new tyre, the rear chain tensioner came loose. Gary McPhee helped me outta that by going home for tools and helped me straighten the now bent bolt to re-tighten it, while at the Gladdy.
Then, my front wheel started making a horrible noise on the way home while on the Paekakariki hill.
So Riffer helps me dismantle the front, and we discover it has a rooted wheel bearing....at 34k and change FFS!
But that's not all we found......
Discovered somehow the wrong diameter rotors are fitted.
There is a story to tell there alone but...never mind.
The rotors were worn only on the bottom 1/3rd of the surface...GAH!
The disk was only shoing 2/3rds of the surface shiny with fresh contact marks.
So now, I painfully await new wavy disk rotors from a chap in the Waikato, sourced from overseas. I am getting new pads from the people who replaced the rotors for ma 2 years back, but don't trust them to supply me rotors again that's for sure (as they fitted them I can feel totally justified they fucked it up, but I am still sourcing my own rotors as I had a decent source)
Sigh...as if the valve service every 10k aint bad enough............
Fuckin Ducati's.......
God I love riding em.........